Re: [9fans] VMX Cores

2024-03-18 Thread hiro
> i dont see vmx causing kernel crashes for me. > however, i think the author meant to express is lack > of confidence in the air-tightiness of vmx giving > the zillions of architectual registers you have to > setup to contain a guest. it is easy to forget > to set some bit and everything works unt

Re: [9fans] VMX Cores

2024-03-17 Thread cinap_lenrek
for the kernel part, a devvmx vm *IS* a core basically and the physical memory that core sees is passed as a segment to the device. so having multiple cpu support should be fine without having even to change the kernel part, you just have multiple vmx instances share a memory segment. however, to

[9fans] VMX Cores

2024-03-17 Thread jubal . biggs
In the man pages for VMX, it states under "bugs":  Currently only one core is supported. Does anyone know why this is? The inclusion of this under "bugs" alongside the tendency to crash the kernel makes me think that VMX was originally intended to be able to leverage multiple cores and